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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Booksellers"”.
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California Bookstores: Passion and Profit
<p>California Bookstores reviews independent booksellers’ current relationship between passion and profit in the context of challenges faced by the modern bookstore. Based on interviews from nine booksellers in California, the findings demonstrate strong ties between passion and profit. Independent …
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The Rise of Independent Bookselling in China
… thesis is concerned with the rise of independent booksellers in China since the late 2000s. Drawing on the findings of a qualitative study I conducted with 55 independent booksellers between 2014 and 2015, I argue that independent bookselling in China is an economic activity politicized, and the …
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The nineteenth-century book trade in Aberdeen, with primary reference to Lewis Smith.
… 'trade'. The agency links between the Aberdeen booksellers and the metropolitan centres of book production are emphasised throughout. Chapters 4 to 7 cover the years 1800-1852 and analyse the developing career of Lewis Smith - particularly his apprenticeship, his early years as an independent …
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Bookselling culture and consumer behaviour: marketing strategies and responses in traditional and online environments.
… of marketing both by chain and online booksellers, and consumer responses to this marketing and a reading of the current trade press revealed calls for research into consumer wants and needs (Watson, 2002; Holman, 2007; Horner, 2007a). While BML (Book Marketing Limited) carries out a …
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Marketing Good Taste: Print Agents' Use Of Paratext To Shape Markets And Readers In Early Modern England
… strategies deployed by print agents (publishers, booksellers, and printers) to create their unique niche in the marketplace. Building on scholarship that discusses how print agents shaped authorship, I argue that paratexts designed by print agents influenced the development of popular taste and …
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The Portmanteau Papers
… the range of contributions made by printers, booksellers, visual artists, authors, and readers. The Portmanteau Papers also creatively represents the contributions of women authors, especially novelist Sarah Scott, to the development of the novel, extending significant research done in this …
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A bibliographical and textual study of the wordbooks for James Miller's Joseph and his brethren and Thomas Broughton's Hercules, oratorio librettos set to music by George Frideric Handel, 1743-44.
… explores the significance of wordbooks for the booksellers of Joseph and Hercules and reconstructs aspects of wordbook production and consumption. Chapter Five identifies the wordbooks’ printer and places wordbook production in the context of book trade regulation and copyright. Chapter Six …
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Establishing Children Community Library and Resource Center at Kahawa Estate, Kiambu County
… primary data for the study while resources from booksellers, libraries, internet and Ministry of Education formed the main secondary data. The primary data is summarized using SPSS; then merged with secondary data and interpreted to draw the main trends about children reading habits.
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Reading habits in Scotland circa 1750-1820
… such as after-death inventories and records of booksellers. To aid the analysis, a three-part subject classification system is introduced in this thesis to differentiate between different categories of reading - religious, entertainment and improvement - and to facilitate comparisons between …
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Birth of the First: Authenticity and the Collecting of Modern First Editions, 1890-1930
… my dissertation explores the collectors, booksellers, authors, publishers, and books central to this collecting trend. To some extent, I offer a history of the early practice of collecting modern first editions. At the same time, I propose that this form of book collecting signaled …
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Art and ephemerality: The cultural work of American poetry broadsides since 1960
… galleries and museums rather than libraries and booksellers, and the literary artifact takes on an aura like that of original visual art. The final chapter investigates the cultural significance of the printer's craft and the institutional setting of the artifact in terms of a portfolio by writer …
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Romanticism in Print: Periodicals and The Politics of Aesthetics in Restoration Paris, 1814-1830
… process that involved writers, printers, booksellers, readers, and institutions. The literary conflict between romanticism and classicism, which took place not only in the press, but also on stage, and in meeting halls, salons, and living rooms, played an important role in the development …
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"Alla Greca"? Matter and Meaning of Greek-style bookbindings in Renaissance Venice
… had, and how they interacted with customers and booksellers. Through the analysis of five case studies, all involving Greek-style bookbindings made in the Republic of Venice for a range of diverse patrons, I re-examine how these books were collected not just by scholars, but by individuals of …
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Popular Sunday Newspapers in Late -Victorian Britain
… records of the Retail Newsagents and Booksellers' Union, which represented the small shopkeepers who sold most Sunday papers, as well as contemporary press commentaries and political discussions. These sources show that Victorian Sunday newspapers were seen as unrespectable because …
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Decadent Sociability and Material Culture at the Fin de Siècle: 'A Genius for Friendship'
… of sympathetic relationships between booksellers and their authors. In analysing these forms of sociability at the end of the nineteenth century, this thesis foregrounds an engaged reading of decadence: it is a social movement with a material vocabulary and a cultural language used to …
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'Its inhabitants are a reading people': from Cork city bookshops and voluntary libraries to the Cork Public Library, c.1792–1920
… bookshops and book auctions and, by analysing booksellers’ catalogues, establishes what was available to purchase. The high cost of books and journals put these beyond the means of most of the city’s population. Borrowing from voluntary libraries was cheaper, which was reflected in the high, if …
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English printed drama in collection before Jonson and Shakespeare
… various agents, including printers, publishers, booksellers, and readers. Ultimately, I show that when viewed within these genealogies of the collection, the Jonson and Shakespeare Folios signal an incomplete break with earlier collections, and in fact, are constituted by these understudied forms …